Eye color in the Middle Ages?
As someone interested in history and especially European history in the Middle Ages, I'm wondering the following. It might sound stupid but it's been on my mind all day: a few questions about eye colors in medieval central Europe. Were most people really blue-eyed and was that seen as the normal and healthy eye color, including by the church. If you had green eyes, I thought I read that you were considered a witch. What about gray or light/dark brown eyes? Would I have been accepted with medium brown eyes, or did people really not care what color my eyes were.
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Tendentially most likely. Blue, green, gray and brown eyes will probably have been considered normal. This whole witch tracing story (which had its climax only in the early modern period) should not be overvalued in my eyes.
In total, there is a (usually socially conditioned) reason and DANN is looking for some features and determines them as ‘magic’ or ‘demonic’, just to have something to make it clear that people are unpopular.
There was a little bit less in the north of Europe. But the other colors like green or gray, they were normal and no one bothered. Not the church either.